As the thread progresses, you'll notice it encompasses the comparisons of back-in-the-day machines, but also their respective Basics, and also various faster ways to compute the same results. Which does make the whole thing a bit of a moving target, but it's interesting all the same.

A recent BBC Basic program is especially interesting, I think, with some unusual use of FOR..NEXT in a recursive function as a way of creating something a little like a block-structured IF..THEN.

(It would be most excellent if someone could cook up a JSBeeb URL for this ditty! Even better if they could post the recipe for turning listings into URLs. I've done it myself in the past but I'm not sure those neurons are still alive.)